Author Tim Goglein believes American youth are on a mission to overcome the “broken and unevenness” that has long ruled culture in order to discover true faith and devotion.
“They don’t want a reversed reality anymore,” he told CBN News of Youths. “They want reality, and I think there’s a way to move forward for them and the church has a big role to play.”
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Goeglein, author of “The Stumble on Utopia: How the 1960s Turned into a National Nightmare and How to Revive American Dreams” and author of the Vice President of External and Government Relations to Focus on Family, said he wrote his latest book to address the questions he often receives about the current state of our culture.
“In other parts of our history, you have to say, ‘Please tell me more about what you’re looking for,'” he said. “But in 21st century America, I think everyone knows that people on the left, right and center know what we’re talking about. We’re in a cultural and spiritual crisis of the first order.”
Goeglein said it would “stumble over utopia,” a project that traces today’s confusion back to “the social and moral revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s.”
“The United States experienced intense, spiritual, cultural, educational, political, legal and educational spasms in the 1960s and ’70s,” he said. “And it was promoted by progressive utopians. They didn’t like the United States, they didn’t like our constitution, they made our history uncomfortable, they wanted to create a new America.”
Goeglein continued. “And in the 1960s, that’s exactly what they were trying to do, and unfortunately… in 21st century America we live with the malice of what they imposed on our country.”
But while Goeglein tracks the roots of the confusion, he says he believes America’s best days are ahead. In fact, he believes that there are already positive indications that people should please where the situation is heading.
“We are witnessing the seedlings of regeneration and renewal that are already happening,” he said. “Whether it’s a trance discussion, or it’s a choice debate in a school, a charter school, I think it’s very, very exciting. All of a sudden, we have good movies, good TV, good music.”
But to understand the path forward, we need to go back to understand how the situation was shaped. Goeglein said people must understand that many of the major US institutions are experiencing a “combination of tsunamis and earthquakes.”
In “Stumbling towards Utopia,” what I am showing is that we could fundamentally change the country using this matrix of very bad ideas, which is essentially just a handful of very powerful and influential people,” he said. “And I need to understand where we are from if we are going to recover and update.
From cultural changes to entertainment to progressive ideology that permeated churches in the 1960s and 1970s, he said it had a deep impact.
However, despite so many dysfunctions, Goeglein is looking at a positive path for America.
“I believe it can be repaired,” he said. “But what I don’t believe in is that in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, or Wall Street, or here in Washington, DC, we can somehow give America a restoration. It starts in the church, in the neighborhood, in the home, in the school, in the place where God put us.
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